Thursday, 29 December 2011

END THE MASSACRE OF KURDS IN TURKEY!

Turkish war planes massacred 35 children and youth in air strikes on
28.12.2011.

Following the authorisation given by the
Turkish government to its army to attack all life forms seen in the Kurdish countryside,
Turkish war planes have begun a process of systematic massacre against the
Kurdish people. This systematic killing has claimed the lives of 35 Kurds after
F-16 fighter jets attacked the outskirts of Roboski village using illegal weapons
and gas.

A villager who was wounded in the attack has
said that they were apprehended by soldiers and rounded up, then the soldiers
left and the war planes arrived on the scene. Furthermore the villager added
that the bombs that rained down on them spread a bitter smell, were flammable
and left them breathless. The Turkish Chief of Staff claimed that the air strike
was carried out following orders and blamed the Kurds for being there at that
time. They also added that the attack was carried out following detection by
unmanned aircraft (obtained from Israel and the USA.)

These statements prove that the attack was
carried out with the permission of the AKP government, planned by the Chief of
Staff and implemented using the technological and intelligence support of the
USA.

Public
opinion is aware that over 5000 thousand civilian Kurds have been arrested in
the past two years, including political representatives, MPs, writers,
journalists, intellectuals, Mayors and children. Parallel to this political
genocide campaign the Turkish Army have been carrying out military operations
and have used chemical weapons to massacre Kurdish guerrillas and burn their
corpses. Also in recent months a family of 7, including 2 children, were
brutally murdered in the Qandil region by
the cross border air attacks of the Turkish armed forces. These political and
military operations were met with silence in the international community, and
the Turkish state gained the necessary confidence to continue creating a
bloodbath in Kurdistan, the latest which has taken place in the Roboski village
in Sirnak province and ended the lives of 36 young Kurds just in the spring of
their lives, with the death toll expected to rise.

The Turkish state has added another atrocity
and massacre to its history of crimes against humanity. Other states that have
remained silent in the face of these atrocities and supported the Turkish state
and its armed forces with all types of technology and military support are also
responsible. What are the states that have intervened in the Middle East by
justifying it with the argument that arms were being used against civilians
going to say to the Turkish government bombing ‘their own civilians’ with
planes? This two faced, hypocritical policy
against the Kurds must end. Or are these states using the rhetoric of human
rights and democracy for their personal gain and propaganda!

As a Kurd living in Europe I do not accept the massacres that are being
enforced on my people. We do not deserve this treatment and will do everything
to see justice done. I am calling on democratic public opinion and all human
rights supporters and activists to support the Kurdish people.

This
is my appeal to international public opinion, bodies and individuals:

-Condemn
and say ‘enough is enough’ to the systematic massacre of the Kurdish people by
the Turkish state,

-Call
for the military support offered to the Turkish Republic, especially by the USA
and EU to cease, and for political and economic relations to be frozen,

-Call
for the Turkish Republic to be tried in an international court for the human
rights and war crimes it has committed,

-Call
for the EU and UN to assign a committee to investigate the incident in Roboski
village.